Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 8, Number 49, December 22, 1981 �TIillNational SchlumbergerlPer mindex behind threat to'Reagan by Criton Zoakos, Editor-in-Chief The assassination threat facing President Reagan is assassination threat came almost immediately afterward.. much more extensive than indicated by the presence of In looking for an assassination capability which is the four or five Libyan "hit teams" deployed in the capable of threatening the President of the United States, United States, now occupying the attention of security you must first determine whether Perm1ndex is involved. officers and the mass communications media. Our read­ In this particular case, Perm index is involved all over the ers will recall that this publication had warned of threats place. The Rothko Chapel event had been organized by to the President's life a few weeks prior to the Nov. 30 Madame Dominique de Menil of Texas, wife of the de surfacing of the public "Libya hit team" scare, in the Menil who founded Permindex. The lady's maiden name context of events occurring around the Senate's Oct. 28 is Schlumberger, the financial fortune which owns Per­ vote on the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia and mindex as well as Schlumberger Ltd., the famous oil around a secret Muslim Brotherhood terrorist confer­ technology firm controlled out of Switzerland which ence at Rothko Chapel in Texas Oct. 21-25. The Rothko dominates the world oil-exploration business. Chapel meeting and the AWACS fight had this in com­ Permindex, of course, is the notorious assassination­ mon: they were fights on the substantive issue of whether oriented business front, formerly of New Orleans, which or not the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia should be politically was investigated by District Attorney Jim Garrison f r destabilized. organizing the assassination of President John F. Ken­ President Reagan made extraordinary personal ef­ nedy in November 1963. Permindex was also responsible forts to ensure a vote in favor of the AWACS sale as part for numerous assassination attempts on President Charl­ of his personal commitment to prevent a destabilization es de Gaulle of France, and it was on de Gaulle's request of Saudi Arabia at all costs: "We shall not allow to that Permindex was forced to shut down its European happen to Saudi Arabis what happened to Iran." The offices in 1965 and withdraw to South Africa. Garrison's Rothko Chapel conferees, all high-level Muslim Broth­ investigations into Permindex were frustrated by a series erhood political operatives with State Department pro­ of mysterious deaths of key witnesses in the Kennedy tection, were in Texas to discuss plans for an immediate assassination case and by a number of coverup and destabilization of Saudi Arabia. It was ironic to see disinformation operations conducted by a Justice De­ Islamic fanatics and Zionist spokesmen joining hands in partment clique associated with Walter Sheridan and by an attempt to prevent the AWACS sale, but they were the then president of the the National Broadcasting sharing in common the understanding that a failure of Company, Julian Goodman. These operations sought to Reagan to win that decisive vote in the Senate would maintain the credibility of the 1964 Warren Commission signal the activation of destabilization operations against Report coverup, a cover up orchestrated by powerful the desert kingdom. The President won the vote, and the interests associated with the United Brands Company, 50 National EIR December 22, 1981 © 1981 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. interests closely linked with Perm index. of Washington. Subsequently, the AWACS vote in the Senate and The Schlumberger connection the President's k\!en interest in stabilizing the Middle To understand Permindex and why it poses such a East situation by expanding beyond the Camp David problem for President Reagan today, so many years framework to include the proposals and initiatives after its hits on Presidents Kennedy and de Gaulle, one embedded in the Fahd Plan of Saudi Arabia, indicated must understand the character of the financial and that President Reagan was about to destabilize the historical interests behind Permindex; in short, one must strategic gameplan from which Permindex's political look at the Schlumberger connection. The name masters were proceeding. Hence, the President was once Schlumberger is associated with old banking interests again labeled an incalculable quantity, and the assassi­ in Switzerland, France, Belgium, and the Low Coun­ nation threat started resurfacing. In addition, M. Jean tries. Intermarriage with the de Menil family has Riboud sent Foreign Minister Cheysson to Israel, ef­ brought a reinforcement of old ties with the Russian fecting a ISO-degree reversal of French foreign policy Orthodox nobility associated with the 19th-century toward the Middle East in an effort to undo what "Black Hundreds" fascist movements. The notorious Reagan's stabilization policy had started. Kennedy assassination figure, de Mohrenschild, a friend of Madame Dominique de Menil and the person who The motive set up Lee Harvey Oswald as the "patsy," is typical of The assassination threat against the President will this little-known East Bloc-Western intelligence inter­ persist even after the "Libyan hit team" fever abates. face represented by de Menil and Permindex. The The political motivation for such an assassination is the - Rothko Chapel, for instance, which runs on de Menil desire to cause an institutional destabilization of the funds, is controlled by the Eastern Orthodox Order of U.S. government. If a security specialist desires to Saint Basil; a cutout arrangement wh�re KGB officers, answer the question, "Why do they want to kill the Catholic Jesuits, and Eastern Orthodox priests meet. President?" he should make a quick calculation to In terms of the relevance of Schlumberger-de Menil­ figure out what the consequences of such an assassina­ Permindex to the current world strategic situation, one tion would be on the institutions of our government. must review the series of events covering the period Those expected consequences on our institutions are the from the Yorktown victory celebrations on Oct. 19, motivation for the contemplated assassination. 19SI, to the visit to Israel of French Foreign Minister The next question then is: "Who would desire such Claude Cheysson on Dec. 7-S. In mid-October, after consequences?" From all the major policy factions in President Sadat's assassination and before the AWACS the international strategic arena, whose programmatic vote, President Reagan held a state dinner for the perspectives would benefit most from the institutional French President Fran�ois Mitterrand, then in our consequences flowing out, of a presidential assassina­ country to honor the 200th anniversary of the French­ tion? That is how one will arrive at the circles of high American victory at Yorktown, Va. Present at the finance promoting the neo-Malthusian Global 2000 dinner was Madame de Menil, a generous financial perspectives associated with the Club of Rome and contributor to Socialist Mitterrand. Also present was Federal Reserve Chief Paul A. Volcker. Schlumberger the chairman of the board of Schlumberger Ltd., M. and Permindex are the powerful associates of the major Jean Riboud, the person who created the Socialist world financial interests behind the Bank for Interna­ Mitterrand's political carreer and who is known tional Settlements (BIS), the Bank of England, the through France to be the sole owner of the Mitterrand Central Bank of Switzerland (Schlumberger's banking government, including its foreign minister, Claude home), and the Banque de France, currently under the Cheysson. sway of M. Jean Riboud. We are not privy to the arrangement that the In the course of the week of Dec. 7, the three Schlumberger-Permindex interests attempted to mediate above-named central banks, under BIS supervision, between President Reagan and Socialist Mitterrand. held a series of strategy sessions in which they agreed Shortly thereafter, the daily press gave accounts of on a six-month gameplan to collapse the U.S. dollar in statements by official spokesmen to the effect that the collaboration with Paul Volcker. The objective, as de­ U.S. government would allow certain French diplomat­ scribed privately by insiders of the International Mone­ ic, military, and intelligence initiatives in Latin America, tary Fund's Group of Ten, is to manage a worldwide Africa, and the Middle East, on the understanding that deflationary collapse within 1982, a necessary financial the Socialist Fran�ois Mitterrand was such a staunch precondition for implementing the population-redUC­ champion of U.S. interests that he would fight tooth­ tion targets of the Global 2000 Report. An institutional and-nail on the European continent against Soviet destabilization of the United States, such as indicated military threats and in favor of the EuromissiIe policy by the results of a presidential assassination, is required EIR December 22, 19S1 National 51 to accomplish this objective. Part I Threat and deception The "Libyan hit team" threat was both a real threat as well as a deception. The hit teams are real enough. Who controls the Libyan hit teams is another story. Introducing NBC's Who tipped off the American security services about this threat is yet another. If one follows the threads from Armand Hammer, Max Fisher, and Edgar Bronf­ dirty-trickschief of man into United Brands, from there into Schlumberger­ Permindex, and from there into the Libyan intelligence by Richard McGraw service arrangement known as the "Jamahuriya," one will eventually be able to demonstrate that those who deployed the hit teams and those who "tipped off' the United States are either the same agency, or agencies in Most Americat:ls have never heard of Walter Sheridan. coordination. His biography does not appear in Who's Who or other The object is to deceive and thus blind the intended standard listings of influentials in the United States victim into looking toward a direction which appears to government.